[Genealib] Ashkenazi or Sephardi? DNA unites Jewish families, but raises questions

[Joy Rich]

"Ashkenazi or Sephardi? DNA unites Jewish families, but raises questions," an article by 
Schelly Talalay Dardashti, has been posted at
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16659&intcategoryid=5 .

A number of families, almost all of them knowing themselves to be Jewish, were identified 
through Family Tree DNA, a DNA testing company with a large Jewish database, as 
descendants of a common paternal ancestor who lived several hundred years ago.

One possibility labels the common ancestor as Sephardi and another as Ashkenazi. Herbert 
Huebscher, born in Vienna, and Saul Issroff, born in South Africa, will talk about the 
project and its interesting results at the IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy.

Joy

Joy Rich
Co-chair, Repositories Committee
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
26th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy
New York City
August 13-18, 2006
www.jgsny2006.org